Transformation Quotes

“What is there so fearful as the expectation of evil tidings delayed? ... Misery is a more welcome visitant when she comes in her darkest guise and wraps us in perpetual black, for then the heart no longer sickens with disappointed hope.

- The Evil Eye”
― Mary Shelley, Transformation

“You have suffered a land-, I a sea-wreck.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Transformation

“And to my young heart the idea of death came for the first time blended with that of joy.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Transformation

“My proud step was no interpreter of my heart, for I deeply felt that, though surrounded by every luxury, I was a beggar.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Transformation

“...a thousand fanged thoughts stung me to the heart.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Transformation

“Revenge! — the word seemed balm to me; I hugged it, caressed it, till, like a serpent, it stung me.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Transformation

“Was my dream but a mirror of the truth?”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Transformation

“But power, in all its shapes, is venerable to man. Awe, curiosity, a clinging fascination, drew me towards him.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Transformation